Medtech: Potential for innovation.
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چکیده
Switzerland, with its ETHZ and EPFL, universities, advanced technical colleges, the CSEM, the Empa and the Paul Scherrer Institute, possesses a complete chain of knowledge and interdisciplinary competence which ranks it among the worldwide leaders in medical technology. To ensure that a wider range of excellent research results are translated into marketable products and methods, the CTI Agency for the Promotion of Innovation launched the Medtech initiative, a success story.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Swiss medical weekly
دوره 139 41-42 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009